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“A gay widower contends with bereavement and new love in Floridian Nights, Lance Ringel’s plaintive romance novel set during the late 1980s AIDS epidemic.”
The awards recognize the best books published in 2020 from small, independent, and university presses, as well as by author publishers.
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"Living with Viola" is the heartwrenching but triumphant story of a girl grappling with anxiety and cultural differences. Livy is a Canadian middle school student of Chinese descent. She’s attending a new school, and feels alone. After...
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by Karen Rigby
A gay widower contends with bereavement and new love in "Floridian Nights", Lance Ringel’s plaintive romance novel set during the late 1980s AIDS epidemic. At thirty-five, prickly, brooding Gary meets Rick, a twenty-two-year-old waiter...
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by Barbara Hodge
Junkwraith / Ellinor Richey / Top Shelf Productions / Softcover $24.99 (288pp) / 978-1-60309-500-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / A girl confronts a ghost and her own sense of self in the graphic novel Junkwraith....
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by Melissa Wuske
With eyes wide open to the thorniest social and environmental problems, we take comfort knowing of the common folks improving their local communities one tiny step at a time. Such humble efforts are a reminder that change doesn’t...
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by Kristine Morris
Shame on all you nebulous, all-purpose words—having sacrificed your uniqueness, what do you have now that your true meaning is lost to the ages? Take “nature,” that most lovely of ideas now defined to exclude humans and things...
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by Barbara Hodge
In the Meadow of Fantasies / Hadi MohammadiNooshin Safakhoo, illustratorSara Khalili, translator / elsewhere editions / Hardcover $20.00 (42pp) / 978-1-939810-90-8 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / A haunting fairy tale...
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“The best food is always the simplest,” writes Chef Ollie Dabbous in his new cookbook, Essential. Dabbous–a Michelin starred chef with an impeccable résumé—contends that the simplest food is also the most sophisticated and aims...
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by Barbara Hodge
Win Me Something / Kyle Lucia Wu / Tin House Books / Softcover $16.95 (268pp) / 978-1-951142-89-6 / A young woman figures out how to belong in Kyle Lucia Wu’s novel Win Me Something. Willa isn’t passionate about being a nanny,...
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